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Re: [cobalt-security] Lotsa bounced mail, but no open relays?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Lotsa bounced mail, but no open relays?
- From: "Chris Bell" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:56:12 +1000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
-----Original Message-----
>I just got 16 bounced Emails from my mail daemon that look like the stuff
>below, but as near as I can tell I don't have any open relays, and I've
>jsut checked my "Relay email from these hosts/domains" window and it still
>looks the same. Any idea why my system tried to send them, where they
>originated from , and what if anything I can do about it?
Some spammers lately have been sending out spam with other people's
from/reply addresses, which means if the address they're spamming doesn't
exist, it bounces back on someone else (such as me, and possibly you,
although i've only had a couple).
cb